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PHP

Posted by Vishay Bhatia
Vishay Bhatia
1,293 Points

My contact form doesn't submit across the information to the server

I am currently on the topic of 'WORKING WITH POST VARIABLES'.

I have followed everything the video told me to do in regards to adding:

<form method = "post" action="contact-process.php">

and then creating a new file called contact-process.php

However, when I reload the localhost page, it doesn't submit the info across. If I manually type in http://localhost/contact-process.php

I get array(0) { } cause no info has been sent across.

It should be such an easy task!

3 Answers

Vishay Bhatia
Vishay Bhatia
1,293 Points

Sorry guys. I solved my own problem. It turned out after staring at my screen for 2 hours figuring out why it wasn't working, I had forgotten to put the closing '>' for my form submit button from the previous lesson.

Ugh I can't believe I wasted so much time on a silly mistake like that!

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

The w3 validator can be helpful for finding errors like that. You can view the source of the loaded page in a browser and copy/paste it into the validator using the "direct input" tab.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The W3 validator only has experimental HTML5 support, that's why there's W3 validator that uses the nu engine which has full HTML5 support

http://validator.w3.org/nu/

Vishay Bhatia
Vishay Bhatia
1,293 Points
Vishay Bhatia
Vishay Bhatia
1,293 Points

Thanks Tom. Will definitely check it out. Cheers.

William Schott
William Schott
1,624 Points
William Schott
William Schott
1,624 Points

having the same problem